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Research Publications (Food Safety)

This page tracks research articles published in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Recent articles are available ahead of print and searchable by Journal, Article Title, and Category. Research publications are tracked across six categories: Bacterial Pathogens, Chemical Contaminants, Natural Toxins, Parasites, Produce Safety, and Viruses. Articles produced by USDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) and FDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) are also tracked in Scopus.

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  1. Development of propidium monoazide combined with real-time quantitative PCR (PMA-qPCR) assays to quantify viable dominant microorganisms responsible for the traditional brewing of Hong Qu glutinous rice wine

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2016
      , Volume 66

      Author(s): Xu-Cong Lv, Yan Li, Wan-Wei Qiu, Xiao-Qi Wu, Bing-Xin Xu, Yi-Ting Liang, Bin Liu, Shao-Jun Chen, Ping-Fan Rao, Li Ni

  2. Effects of sediment, seawater, and season on multi-element fingerprints of Manila clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) for authenticity identification

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2016
      , Volume 66

      Author(s): Haiyan Zhao, Shuangling Zhang

  3. Toxins, Vol. 8, Pages 42: Acetylated Deoxynivalenol GeneratesDifferences of Gene Expression thatDiscriminate Trichothecene Toxicity

    • Toxins

    • Deoxynivalenol (DON), which is a toxic secondary metabolite generated by Fusarium species, is synthesized through two separate acetylation pathways. Both acetylation derivatives, 3-acetyl-DON (3ADON) and 15-acetyl-DON (15ADON), also contaminate grain and corn widely. These derivatives are deacetylated via a variety of processes after ingestion, so it has been suggested that they have the same toxicity as DON.

  4. Identification of CdnL, a Putative Transcriptional Regulator Involved in Repair and Outgrowth of Heat-Damaged Bacillus cereus Spores

    • PLOS ONE

    • Alicja K. Warda, Marcel H. Tempelaars, Jos Boekhorst, Tjakko Abee, Masja N. Nierop Groot

      • Bacillus cereus

  5. Colonization of Beef Cattle by Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli during the First Year of Life: A Cohort Study

    • PLOS ONE

    • Raies A. Mir, Thomas A. Weppelmann, Mauricio Elzo, Soohyoun Ahn, J. Danny Driver, KwangCheol Casey Jeong

      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Xenobiotic Compounds Degradation by Heterologous Expression of a Trametes sanguineus Laccase in Trichoderma atroviride

    • PLOS ONE

    • Edgar Balcázar-López, Luz Helena Méndez-Lorenzo, Ramón Alberto Batista-García, Ulises Esquivel-Naranjo, Marcela Ayala, Vaidyanathan Vinoth Kumar, Olivier Savary, Hubert Cabana, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, Jorge Luis Folch-Mallol

      • Chemical contaminants

  7. Contribution of the Salmonella enterica KdgR Regulon to Persistence of the Pathogen in Vegetable Soft Rots [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • During their colonization of plants, human enteric pathogens, such as Salmonella enterica, are known to benefit from interactions with phytopathogens. At least in part, benefits derived by Salmonella from the association with a soft rot caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum were shown to be dependent on Salmonella KdgR, a regulator of genes involved in the uptake and utilization of carbon sources derived from the degradation of plant polymers.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Diguanylate Cyclases AdrA and STM1987 Regulate Salmonella enterica Exopolysaccharide Production during Plant Colonization in an Environment-Dependent Manner [Plant Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Increasing evidence indicates that despite exposure to harsh environmental stresses, Salmonella enterica successfully persists on plants, utilizing fresh produce as a vector to animal hosts. Among the important S. enterica plant colonization factors are those involved in biofilm formation. S. enterica biofilm formation is controlled by the signaling molecule cyclic di-GMP and represents a sessile lifestyle on surfaces that protects the bacterium from environmental factors.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. How Does Sampling Methodology Influence Molecular Detection and Isolation Success in Influenza A Virus Field Studies? [Methods]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Wild waterfowl are important reservoir hosts for influenza A virus (IAV) and a potential source of spillover infections in other hosts, including poultry and swine.

      • Viruses

  10. To Modulate Survival under Secondary Stress Conditions, Listeria monocytogenes 10403S Employs RsbX To Downregulate {sigma}B Activity in the Poststress Recovery Stage or Stationary Phase [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Listeria monocytogenes is a saprophytic bacterium that thrives in diverse environments and causes listeriosis via ingestion of contaminated food. RsbX, a putative sigma B (B) regulator, is thought to maintain the ready state in the absence of stress and reset the bacterium to the initial state in the poststress stage in Bacillus subtilis. We wondered whether RsbX is functional in L. monocytogenes under different stress scenarios.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Mapping the Distribution of Cysts from the Toxic Dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides in Bloom-Prone Estuaries by a Novel Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Assay [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Cochlodinium polykrikoides is a cosmopolitan dinoflagellate that is notorious for causing fish-killing harmful algal blooms (HABs) across North America and Asia. While recent laboratory and ecosystem studies have definitively demonstrated that Cochlodinium forms resting cysts that may play a key role in the dynamics of its HABs, uncertainties regarding cyst morphology and detection have prohibited even a rudimentary understanding of the distribution of C.

      • Shellfish toxins

  12. Genomic Features of Environmental and Clinical Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolates Lacking Recognized Virulence Factors Are Dissimilar [Genetics and Molecular Biology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a bacterial pathogen that can cause illness after the consumption or handling of contaminated seafood. The primary virulence factors associated with V. parahaemolyticus illness are thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) and Tdh-related hemolysin (TRH). However, clinical strains lacking tdh and trh have recently been isolated, and these clinical isolates are poorly understood.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. An Environmental Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O145 Clonal Population Exhibits High-Level Phenotypic Variation That Includes Virulence Traits [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) serotype O145 is one of the major non-O157 serotypes associated with severe human disease. Here we examined the genetic diversity, population structure, virulence potential, and antimicrobial resistance profiles of environmental O145 strains recovered from a major produce production region in California.

      • Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Phytic Acid and Sodium Chloride Show Marked Synergistic Bactericidal Effects against Nonadapted and Acid-Adapted Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strains [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • The synergistic antimicrobial effects of phytic acid (PA), a natural extract from rice bran, plus sodium chloride against Escherichia coli O157:H7 were examined. Exposure to NaCl alone at concentrations up to 36% (wt/wt) for 5 min did not reduce bacterial populations. The bactericidal effects of PA alone were much greater than those of other organic acids (acetic, citric, lactic, and malic acids) under the same experimental conditions (P < 0.05).

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. N-Glycosylation Improves the Pepsin Resistance of Histidine Acid Phosphatase Phytases by Enhancing Their Stability at Acidic pHs and Reducing Pepsin's Accessibility to Its Cleavage Sites [Enzymology and Protein Engineering]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • N-Glycosylation can modulate enzyme structure and function. In this study, we identified two pepsin-resistant histidine acid phosphatase (HAP) phytases from Yersinia kristensenii (YkAPPA) and Yersinia rohdei (YrAPPA), each having an N-glycosylation motif, and one pepsin-sensitive HAP phytase from Yersinia enterocolitica (YeAPPA) that lacked an N-glycosylation site.

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. On-chip acoustophoretic isolation of microflora including S. typhimurium from raw chicken, beef and blood samples

    • Journal of Microbiological Methods

    • Publication date: Available online 4 February 2016


      Author(s): Bongkot Ngamsom, Maria J. Lopez-Martinez, Jean-Claude Raymond, Patrick Broyer, Pradip Patel, Nicole Pamme

      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. A modified bioautographic method for antibacterial component screening against anaerobic and microaerophilic bacteria

    • Journal of Microbiological Methods

    • Publication date: Available online 4 February 2016


      Author(s): Judit K. Kovács, Györgyi Horváth, Monika Kerényi, Béla Kocsis, Levente Emődy, György Schneider

      • Campylobacter
      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Growth and Survival of Lactobacillus Acidophilus and Bifidobacterium Bifidum in Probiotic Yogurts Enriched by Barberry Extract

    • Journal of Food Safety

    • Abstract

  19. Toxins, Vol. 8, Pages 40: Teratogenicity of Ochratoxin A and the Degradation Product, Ochratoxin α, in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Embryo Model of Vertebrate Development

    • Toxins

    • Ochratoxins, and particularly ochratoxin A (OTA), are toxic fungal-derived contaminants of food and other agricultural products. Growing evidence supports the degradation of OTA by chemical, enzymatic and/or microbial means as a potential approach to remove this mycotoxin from food products. In particular, hydrolysis of OTA to ochratoxin α (OTα) and phenylalanine is the presumptive product of degradation in most cases.

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  20. Signaling by the heavy-metal sensor CusS involves rearranged helical interactions in specific transmembrane regions

    • Molecular Microbiology

    • Abstract

      • Bacterial pathogens

  21. A New Glabrous Gene (csgl3) Identified in Trichome Development in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

    • PLOS ONE

    • Jin-Ying Cui, Han Miao, Li-Hong Ding, Todd C. Wehner, Pan-Na Liu, Ye Wang, Sheng-Ping Zhang, Xing-Fang Gu

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Development of a rapid on-site detection method for pork in processed meat products using real-time loop-mediated isothermal amplification

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2016
      , Volume 66

      Author(s): Shin-Young Lee, Mi-Ju Kim, Yeun Hong, Hae-Yeong Kim

  23. Characterization of farinographic kneading process for different types of wheat flours using fluorescence spectroscopy and chemometrics

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2016
      , Volume 66

      Author(s): M. Haseeb Ahmad, Marius Nache, Stephanie Waffenschmidt, Bernd Hitzmann

  24. Evaluation of high hydrostatic pressure inactivation of human norovirus on strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and in their purees

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 3 February 2016


      Author(s): Runze Huang, Mu Ye, Xinhui Li, Lin Ji, Mukund Karwe, Haiqiang Chen

      • Norovirus
      • Viruses

  25. Phenotypic characteristics and genotypic correlation between Salmonella isolates from a slaughterhouse and retail markets in Yangzhou, China

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 2 April 2016
      , Volume 222

      Author(s): Yinqiang Cai, Jing Tao, Yang Jiao, Xiao Fei, Le Zhou, Yan Wang, Huijuan Zheng, Zhiming Pan, Xinan Jiao

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens